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Elephant
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Fun Facts
Poem
References
Kingdom: Animalia
Characteristics that place it here
- Multicellular
- all heterotrophs
- ingest and digest in an internal cavity
- lack the rigid walls
- cell organized into tissues
- tissues organized into organs
- reproduce sexually
- diploid
Phylum: Chordata
Characteristics that place it here
- defined as organisms that contain a notochord
- bilateral system
- segmented body
- three germ layers
- well developed coelom
- single, dorsal, hollow nerve cord
- tail projecting long
- pharyngeal pouches
- ventral heart with dorsal and ventral blood
vessels
- closed blood system
- digestive system
- bony or cartilaginous endoskeleton
Class: Mammalia
Characteristics that place it here:
- Three middle ear bones
- hair
- production of mike mammary glands
- three ear bones (malleus, ilnus, and stapes)
- hair made of protein keratin
- vibissae sensory function
- color and pattern of hairs make camouflage
- teeth
- lower jaw
- diphyodonty
Order: Proboscidea
Characteristics that place it here:
- Increase size
- earliest lacked trunk or tusks
- trunks- soft tissue that is not fossilized
- cheek teeth
- 6 check teeth
- skull
- lamdadal crest
- require huge amount of food
- long lives
- communicate
Family: Elepahntidae
Characteristics that place it here:
- Characterized as a mammal
- not a plant
- eats plants
Genius and Species: Elephas and Elephas maximus
Characteristics that place it here:
- Multicellular
- heterotrophs
- herbivore
- doesn't contain prokaryots
References
Myers, Philip, 1994 "Kingdom
Animalila" http://www.animaldiversity.com
Unknown 1999 "Elephant trivia and
facts"
http://www.funtrivia.com/Animals/Elephants.html


FUN FACTS
- Elephants can be pregnant for 24 months.
- In Jurassic Park the roar of the T-Rex came
from mixing the noises of a crocodile, a lion, a tiger and a baby elephant.
- Elephants can't perform a standing jump. They
don't have knees.
- Elephants are capable of swimming twenty miles
a day. They use their trunks as natural snorkles.
- The elephant can smell water up to 3 miles
away.
- Elephants have been known to remain standing
after they die
Poem:
Elephants are kind
They are loving and special
They are comforting
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